Box-strap



(No Model.)

J. MAHADY.

AB0X STRAP.

Patented July 22,l 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MAHADY, OF CAMBRIDGE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF'IO BEN BENTON,

OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOX-STRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,538, dated July 22, 1890.

Application filed May 22, 1890. l Serial No. 352,709. (No model.)

T all whom, t may concern.' In the use of my improvement the cable is Be it known that I, JOHN MAHADY, of secured to the sides, top, and bottom of the Cambridge, in the conntyof Middlesex, State box by means of nails passing through the of lllassachusetts, have .invented certain new openings z', the iiexible nature of the mate- 5o and useful Improvements in Binding Straps rial permitting it to be readily bent over the and Braces for Boxes, of which the following edges thereof.l The arms f are then bent is a description sufficiently full, clear, and over the ends of the box and secured by nails exact to enable any person skilled in the art through their loops g, as shown in Fig. l. or science to which said invention appertains Wooden or flatnietal bands ordinarily em- 1o to make and use the saine, reference beinghad ployed on boxes of this class secure only the to the accompanying drawings, forming apart top, sides, and bottom. The boards composof this specification, in whiching the ends are thus .frequently forced or Figure l isa perspective view illustrating broken away from the nails. By means of my improvement in use on a box; and Fig. 2, the overlapping armsf on my improved strap 6o r 5 a view of a portion of the strap, showing these end boards are firmly secured. My immethod of construction. provement also effects a considerable saving Like letters of reference indicate correin cost of construction and material. rThe cable spending parts in the different figures of the being formedin lengths and reeled, any dedrawings. sired amount may be cut therefrom without 65 zo My invention relates especially1 to a bi'ndwaste and quickly applied.

ing-strap for fastening and bracing the ends I do not confine myself to forming the arms and sides of wooden boxes; and it consists in f from one strand d, as either strand may be certain novel features hereinafter fully set employed. Said arms may also be formed on forth and claimed, the object being to proboth sides of the cable-body, if desired, and 7o 25 duce a simpler, cheaper, and more effective employed to more securely attach it to the box.

device of this character than is now in ordi- Having thus explained my invention, what nary use. 1 I claim is- The nature and operation of the improvel. A binding-strap consistingof a wire ment will be readily understood by all concable having a series of laterally-extended 3o `versant with such matters from the following arms constructed to be bent over the edge of explanation. l a box or other vessel and provided with ati In the drawings, A represents the box and taching-eyes, substantially as set forth. B the strap, considered as awliole. The strap 2. A binding-strap consisting of a wire consists of a cable constructed from two cable having a series of laterally-extended 8o 3 5 wires li d, twisted over or around each other. arms constructed to be bent over the edge of Atintervals, in constructingthe cableor strap, a box or other vessel and. provided with atone of the wires, as CZ, is bent outward at right tacliing-eyes, said arms being composed of angles to the body of the strap and is twisted twisted loops formed from one or more of the or bent upon itself, forming the arm f, prostrands of said cable, substantially as set 4o vided at its end with a loop g. The end of forth.

the Wire d is then continued into the body of the cable, the arms f being thus integral JOHN MAIIADY. with said body. The bending of the wire to form said arms leaves a small openingi' (see Witnesses: 45 Fig. 2) in the body of the cable at the base O. M. SHAW,

of each arm. K. DUREEE. 

